Chennai: Seasoned politician Sharad Pawar, who was forced to pull out of the the race for president's post at the BCCI elections, said the poll outcome has shown that the powerful cricketing body was not solely controlled by N Srinivasan.

New Delhi: A defiant Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav continues to remain in office despite having been asked to step down after his name had figured in an FIR for his alleged involvement in massive recruitment scam in the state.

New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday took strong exception to a British film maker interviewing December 16 gangrape convict Mukesh Singh in Tihar jail, and sought a detailed report from the jail chief on the whole issue.

New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said it did not endorse the controversial statement of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed on the State Assembly polls, after a vociferous Opposition disrupted Lok Sabha proceedings seeking a clarification from the Prime Minister.

Kutch (Guj): VicePresidentHamidAnsari on Wednesday expressed concern over India's long-standing problems of poverty and illiteracy, pointing out that the country has the world's highest number of poor as well as the adult illiterate persons.

Mumbai: VicePresidentHamidAnsari on Tuesday said that secularism implies that a state shall not have a religion of its own. His statement comes in the backdrop of an ongoing row between political parties over an advertisement issued by Information and Broadcasting Ministry which carried a picture of the Preamble to the Constitution as it appeared before the 42nd Amendment, without the words 'secular' and 'socialist'.

Washington: US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparred over Iran's nuclear program, the US leader pointedly warning that the Israeli premier had been wrong about the issue before.